It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.